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Subject: beginner help
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Date: 29 May 90 19:48:06 GMT
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I have just started with Icon.  It looks like I really need to
get "The Icon Programming Language" to get very far.  What have
others done?  I have found a bit of info in some of the TR
documents and I could probably read through some of the library
programs to get ideas.

I am trying to parse a file with lines of backslash delimited
fields, with no trailing delimiter:

  field1\field2\field3

I thought I was on to an elegant way with the string scanning
operator:

  procedure main()
    while line := read() do {
      line ? while write(tab(find("\\")))
        do move(1)
    }
  end

But I cannot get the last field.  Any ideas?
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